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Battery draining fast

My T-Mobile note 2 battery is draining extremely fast its NOT rooted. So I don't understand why isn't draining so fast someone please help. And if anyone is having this same problem how did you fix it without getting a replacement device.
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See if anything in the Better Battery Stats thread will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809&nocache=1
That will at least allow you to see what's doing it.

I will thanks
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Check the battery stats for "gpsd". Mine started draining after updating to 4.1.2. It appears (for me at least) that the Samsung "find-your-phone-if someone-steels-it" was behaving badly.
If this is the case for you. Switch the service/function of and notify Samsung.

How many hours do you get when your battery is draining fast?

My stock phone started to drain fast as well. Within 6 hours unplugged I see myself having only 60 percent remaining with barely an hour screen on time. I tried to narrow it down to a rogue app but it seems the OTA was more plausable and easier to blame lol
Now back to using Jedi again.
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Dmwitz said:
the Samsung "find-your-phone-if someone-steels-it" was behaving badly.
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What app is that? I was not aware of that feature.

slybarman said:
What app is that? I was not aware of that feature.
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It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do

tabashir said:
It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
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Are you sure Dive and the remote control functions are supported on our phone?

My phone isn't rooted. And Im new too this so I'm a little bit lost on what to do. Before that T-Mobile update I would get 24hrs+ but I'm lucky enough too get 8hrs and that's without heavy use
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tabashir said:
It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
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That's only for international version like N7100... US don't get that feature on T889.
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zen0s said:
That's only for international version like N7100... US don't get that feature on T889.
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Thats what I thought.
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Same here. Hope it can get fixed soon
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Because you have Some 'crap ware app like faabook runni ng
its notorious for drain.
See what ywve got running In the background and that where the answer will be
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janjannsen99 said:
Because you have Some 'crap ware app like faabook runni ng
its notorious for drain.
See what ywve got running In the background and that where the answer will be
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That's not it ever since this multiwindow update battery life has diminished. I can't figure it out. Like right now all I did is a little bit of fb twitter Tapatalk gps music and thats it and its at 38% unplugged since 6 hrs and on screen time is 2 hrs.
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I turned off the multi window under settings cause I rarely use it and ive been unplugged for 9 hrs and have 56% left I also am syncing manually. Hopefully this will help
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Yea multi view does seem to contribute to see extra drain. But as I see it my phone lasts all day no matter what I do to it. I've never EVER had to say...dang where's my charger. Not with this phone. It's perfect for me . I use it HEAVILY
I trade commodities so I'm constantly on the Internet and syncing prices all day long. I don't use wifi. Ever
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janjannsen99 said:
Yea multi view does seem to contribute to see extra drain. But as I see it my phone lasts all day no matter what I do to it. I've never EVER had to say...dang where's my charger. Not with this phone. It's perfect for me . I use it HEAVILY
I trade commodities so I'm constantly on the Internet and syncing prices all day long. I don't use wifi. Ever
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I don't use mult window just to sgow off to my friends I ise my phone moderately and can get 8 hrs max 4, 5, or 6 with heavy use r u stock?
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Battery life after UPDATE

Im getting worse battery life after update any sugestions?

licjesusr said:
Im getting worse battery life after update any sugestions?
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Same here, root and kill carrier IQ, won't be the same but relatively close

It is have to be kernel? Basebands?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54643447
Note after the update IQ_TOGGLE and IQ_OOB have been removed from system/priv-app/ and combined into the first apk so don't be suprised if you don't see them. Follow that and you'll go a lot farther.

I've had the opposite. My battery life seems to be MUCH better after the update. Getting over 4 hours of SOT as opposed to 3 before the update.

InsaneJester17 said:
I've had the opposite. My battery life seems to be MUCH better after the update. Getting over 4 hours of SOT as opposed to 3 before the update.
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I've got awesome battery life now.

What update? I just got my g3 last Friday and updated then. Do I need this? D85110m is what I have.
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You are on the correct version. I've noticed no change

Thanks
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I have a question to the folks experiencing battery drain. Do any of you have viper installed?

Swizzle82 said:
I have a question to the folks experiencing battery drain. Do any of you have viper installed?
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Never heard of it.
You mean Viber?
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Richieboy67 said:
Never heard of it.
You mean Viber?
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Viper4android sound mod...
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I got my tone infinums the other day and I wanted to unlock some potential so I installed viper sound mod. It works great and they sound great, but I noticed my phone started getting warm and battery started going faster even when not doing anything. I went to the viper settings app and turned it off. I stsrted noticing better battery and my phone stayed cool. I now only turn it on if I'm listening to music or whatever.. I have no more issues now and wanted to see if maybe others might be experiencing these problems and give them a possible reason as to why..

Battery has improved

Great, what is it now?
Mine has gone down since the first day but is still pretty good. Right now I have just over 5 hours screen time and about 15% left.
A couple days ago though it seemed like the battery would last forever.
I'm going to run it low tonight though for a full charge. I'm going to run it down to about 5%.
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IF YOU PLAY ANY GAME YOU ARE SCREWED. if i dont play a game i get a little over 4 hours screen time.

I have almost 6 hours screen time and 7% left..
Ytube, tune in, pocket caster, gmail and other stuff.. Bluetooth for hours and stuff running while screen was off
And of course if you play games you will kill the battery quicker.
I think it is pretty good..
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BACARDILIMON said:
IF YOU PLAY ANY GAME YOU ARE SCREWED. if i dont play a game i get a little over 4 hours screen time.
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I play games and get 5-6 hours of screen time all the time

CheesyNutz said:
I play games and get 5-6 hours of screen time all the time
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Then you would be the only one.
BAD ASS G3

BACARDILIMON said:
Then you would be the only one.
BAD ASS G3
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I don't think he is saying he can play games that entire time.
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Richieboy67 said:
I don't think he is saying he can play games that entire time.
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OK let's put it this way I played angry birds epic for 20 min and clash of clans for 5min and Fromm a full charge I am at 81%
BAD ASS G3

Note 2 horrbile battery drain

Yo!
I hope im posting this in the right thread. Im experiencing bad battery drainage. I will charge my phone at least 3 times a day. Once fully charged it will last usually 2 hours if im on it off and on. Until it hits 30% then it will turn my radio off, and i will have no connection. So i restart my phone and it will come back on with 2%! UGH! Ive tried conditioning my battery by draining completely and charging completely. Maybe its a lemon, i dunno. So has anyone out there experienced this same issue?
Thank you for any info i can get!
B-noob

B-noob said:
Yo!
I hope im posting this in the right thread. Im experiencing bad battery drainage. I will charge my phone at least 3 times a day. Once fully charged it will last usually 2 hours if im on it off and on. Until it hits 30% then it will turn my radio off, and i will have no connection. So i restart my phone and it will come back on with 2%! UGH! Ive tried conditioning my battery by draining completely and charging completely. Maybe its a lemon, i dunno. So has anyone out there experienced this same issue?
Thank you for any info i can get!
B-noob
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What ROM are you using? Stock or custom kernel? If custom kernel which one?
Mostly sounds like a bad battery to me. This has been showing up more often over the past couple of months. This device has gotten up in age and the batteries are giving out. Even users who have only had the device for a few months have seen this happening. While the purchase of the device maybe recent there is a good chance it has been sitting around at the store or a warehouse for a while.
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Nope this is just a stock phone for the moment. So nothing special about this phone.
Yeah that what I though too. This phone is 2 years old and so is the battery. Time to root it and buy a new battery. Thanx for the incite!
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B-noob said:
Nope this is just a stock phone for the moment. So nothing special about this phone.
Yeah that what I though too. This phone is 2 years old and so is the battery. Time to root it and buy a new battery. Thanx for the incite!
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If you want to save a few steps I suggest skipping rooting. Just Odin a custom recovery then flash a custom ROM. All custom ROMs are rooted already so the only reason you would need to root is if you plan on sticking with the stock ROM.
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Thanx! I've never heard of that before so maybe I'll give it a shot!
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We got new batteries after 8 months of having our phones (s3 and note2) mainly to have the old batteries ad back-ups. Have to say that i was pretty surprised at the difference. New batteries were sooo much better!
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Nice! I just purchased a new battery off of Amazon. It's a Beltron, hope it's good.
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B-noob said:
Nice! I just purchased a new battery off of Amazon. It's a Beltron, hope it's good.
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I got knock-offs for both phones. Paid a lot less then if i had bought samsung batteries. And, i think both batteries have held up a lot better then the originals ☺
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B-noob said:
Nice! I just purchased a new battery off of Amazon. It's a Beltron, hope it's good.
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I am still running original battery so not sure about any replacements. Although the normal philosophy applies buy cheap get cheap. Not saying buy the most expensive is best but those $5 Chinese batteries are never a good option.
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How hot is too hot.

Guys how hot is too hot for CPU on this phone? Sometimes my screen gets hot that making a call is uncomfortable. Temp monitor is show 50 right now but it can go as high as 65 just surfing the web and today it was in the 70s while I was skyping. No oc, running unofficial cm12.
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If its hot when making a call you probably have like 5 games running in the background lolor you use the phone way too much.
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ISITBRICKED said:
Guys how hot is too hot for CPU on this phone? Sometimes my screen gets hot that making a call is uncomfortable. Temp monitor is show 50 right now but it can go as high as 65 just surfing the web and today it was in the 70s while I was skyping. No oc, running unofficial cm12.
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Instead of making irrelevant speculations as to how you use your device and completely disregarding your actual question, I'll at least attempt to be somewhat helpful...
I'm not 100% certain on the safe operating temperatures, but I can say personally the highest my device can normally go without suffering loss of performance would be right in the neighborhood of 50. I can play fairly simple games like Plague Inc, Hill Climb Racing, and one or two others and my device doesn't get that hot unless I'm charging while I play. I'm also oc'd to 1988mhz. Once I begin noticing a drop in performance I let it cool before continuing usage. ~50C I would say should be fairly safe, albeit I wouldn't want to keep a constant temperature that high; but 60-70 is really starting to push it.
Do you happen to notice the device getting that hot on other ROMs? If pre-CM12 ROMs don't get as hot or you're not certain, try going back until some of the kinks get worked out.

tikay00 said:
If its hot when making a call you probably have like 5 games running in the background lolor you use the phone way too much.
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Nothing running in the background. Thanks for the reply.
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lordcheeto03 said:
Instead of making irrelevant speculations as to how you use your device and completely disregarding your actual question, I'll at least attempt to be somewhat helpful...
I'm not 100% certain on the safe operating temperatures, but I can say personally the highest my device can normally go without suffering loss of performance would be right in the neighborhood of 50. I can play fairly simple games like Plague Inc, Hill Climb Racing, and one or two others and my device doesn't get that hot unless I'm charging while I play. I'm also oc'd to 1988mhz. Once I begin noticing a drop in performance I let it cool before continuing usage. ~50C I would say should be fairly safe, albeit I wouldn't want to keep a constant temperature that high; but 60-70 is really starting to push it.
Do you happen to notice the device getting that hot on other ROMs? If pre-CM12 ROMs don't get as hot or you're not certain, try going back until some of the kinks get worked out.
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Thanks for the reply. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with my case and/or anker 7800 battery. Never checked the temp before cm12, only had this phone a couple weeks. Thanks again.
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ISITBRICKED said:
Thanks for the reply. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with my case and/or anker 7800 battery. Never checked the temp before cm12, only had this phone a couple weeks. Thanks again.
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You have a different battery than stock, and running a rom. You answered your own question.
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tikay00 said:
You have a different battery than stock, and running a rom. You answered your own question.
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Why does the fact that he's got a different battery than stock mean that he's going to overheat? Are aftermarket batteries supposed to operate at a higher temperature? None I ever used did except possibly when charging, and even then it was only marginally warmer.
The ROM I could see simply because CM12 hadn't had the gremlins worked out yet... but the battery? Only speculating about the cause with no information to back it up, troubleshooting tips, or possible remedies doesn't help anything aside from your post count.

A buggy CM12 will do it. But the battery will aggregate the issue with all that extra power to cook things up.
Pp.

i always look at battery temp, over 110 F then i stop using my phone

djexto said:
i always look at battery temp, over 110 F then i stop using my phone
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Battery temp never goes over 40 usually its high 20s low 30s right now its at 28
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PanchoPlanet said:
A buggy CM12 will do it. But the battery will aggregate the issue with all that extra power to cook things up.
Pp.
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This.
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lordcheeto03 said:
Why does the fact that he's got a different battery than stock mean that he's going to overheat? Are aftermarket batteries supposed to operate at a higher temperature? None I ever used did except possibly when charging, and even then it was only marginally warmer.
The ROM I could see simply because CM12 hadn't had the gremlins worked out yet... but the battery? Only speculating about the cause with no information to back it up, troubleshooting tips, or possible remedies doesn't help anything aside from your post count.
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Read Pancho's post......
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How to remove ads

I like the retail note 4. The screen is fabulous and its fast. However I cannot get by being inundated by the advertisments. Some are full page when I open aps and others flash at the top or bottom of the screen. Very distracting.
Is there an ap or a way to eliminate or at least remove most of the ads. Please be specific. I have gone back to my rooted, unlocked note 2. Will return the 4 if I cannot resolve this issue on the retail 4.
Unfortunitly I do not want to spend 700 for a DE note4. Thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2931785
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2931785
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Thanks. I read thru this excellent thread and tried adblock plus. I had the same problem other vzw owners had. You cant add a new apn on the vzw varrient. I was hoping someone had another solution.
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GaryAlpusa1 said:
Thanks. I read thru this excellent thread and tried adblock plus. I had the same problem other vzw owners had. You cant add a new apn on the vzw varrient. I was hoping someone had another solution.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/adguard-ad-blocker-doesnt-require-root-t2958895#post57198968
I have a 180 day free trial code for the Pro version that I haven't activated yet so if someone wants it let me know.

until there is Root, there's not much you can do about it. Adblock Plus works if you're on wifi, but I noticed that it sucks more battery power and makes the phone run hotter than usual.
My solution was to sell my Retail note 4 (since with all the rebates, I only paid $100 for it), and buy a DE Note 4.

oilfighter said:
until there is Root, there's not much you can do about it. Adblock Plus works if you're on wifi, but I noticed that it sucks more battery power and makes the phone run hotter than usual.
My solution was to sell my Retail note 4 (since with all the rebates, I only paid $100 for it), and buy a DE Note 4.
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The app I posted a link to is for non-rooted devices and works nicely.

oilfighter said:
until there is Root, there's not much you can do about it. Adblock Plus works if you're on wifi, but I noticed that it sucks more battery power and makes the phone run hotter than usual.
My solution was to sell my Retail note 4 (since with all the rebates, I only paid $100 for it), and buy a DE Note 4.
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A cheaper (temporary) solution would be to use your apps in 'Airplane Mode,' assuming it is not too much of an inconvenience :good:
I usually do this when there is no paid version for an app/game :3
In hindsight I guess that it's pretty obvious lol but I'm going to leave it here anyways

JippleStar said:
A cheaper (temporary) solution would be to use your apps in 'Airplane Mode,' assuming it is not too much of an inconvenience :good:
I usually do this when there is no paid version for an app/game :3
In hindsight I guess that it's pretty obvious lol but I'm going to leave it here anyways
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If only I can browse the web in airplane mode, LOL
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The app I posted a link to is for non-rooted devices and works nicely.
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I read through the thread, seems like there are some battery penalties for using the app, so I dont know...

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If only I can browse the web in airplane mode, LOL
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Technically you could... Just activate WiFi after activating Airplane mode.. but that probably wasn't your point

Has anyone tried Adguard, it works through VPN, similar to avast vpn but it blocks ads

Matttrix said:
Has anyone tried Adguard, it works through VPN, similar to avast vpn but it blocks ads
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I posted a link to it up a few posts, I was using it before I got my DE and it works, I did not notice any increase in battery usage either.
I still have a 180 day trial code for the Pro version if someone wants it.

I made thread covering adguard and works great. Developer even jumped in thread to explain. It creates it's own vpn.Only way to block ads on a unrooted device. Adblock will only work on WiFi without root. AdGuard works on both WiFi & Cellular!

I'm liking the free version so far. If you don't mind passing along the key for the pro version, I'd happily take it. I've been impressed with it so far.
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I'll user that code of you still have it.
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Got to admit it, Adgaurd is working awesome. I activated the the pro trial version and it's blocking everything MOAAB or Jrummys ad blocker did. Ads and themes are the main reasons I root. No I just need a dark them and I'm set. I'll probably end up getting the one year license if we don't get root soon.
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cgalyon said:
I'm liking the free version so far. If you don't mind passing along the key for the pro version, I'd happily take it. I've been impressed with it so far.
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